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Prior Knowledge and Learning in 3D Object Recognition

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Object Recognition, Attention, and Action

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Biological 3D object recognition is restricted to the sensing of 2D projections, or images, and is further constrained by the lack of transparency. The most common assumption then is that image data are referenced to mental object representations. Such representations, or object models, must be contrasted with object recognition in so far as the latter involves the understanding of image data. This distinction is central to recognition-by-components (RBC; Biederman 1987), a theory of human image understanding based on the assumption that input images are parsed into regions that display nonaccidental properties of edges. These properties provide critical constraints on the identity of 3D primitives (“geons”) the images come from, e.g., cylinders, blocks, wedges, and cones, and are (relatively) invariant with viewpoint and image degradation.

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  1. Institute of Medical Psychology, University of Munich, Goethestrasse 31, D-80336, München, Germany

    Markus Gschwind & Ingo Rentschler

  2. École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, CNRS UMR 5141, Paris, France

    Hans Brettel

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  1. Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan

    Naoyuki Osaka Ph.D. (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Institute of Medical Psychology, University of Munich, Goethestr. 31, D-80336, Munich, Germany

    Ingo Rentschler Ph.D. (Professor) (Professor)

  3. Image Understanding Laboratory, University of Southern California, Hedco Neurosciences Building, Rm. 316, MC 2520, 3641 Watt Way, Los Angeles, CA, 90089-2520, USA

    Irving Biederman Ph.D. (Professor) (Professor)

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Gschwind, M., Brettel, H., Rentschler, I. (2007). Prior Knowledge and Learning in 3D Object Recognition. In: Osaka, N., Rentschler, I., Biederman, I. (eds) Object Recognition, Attention, and Action. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-73019-4_8

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